Edinburgh] PRESTONFIELD—ROBERTSON MEMORIAL 87
1908
PRESTONFIELD (Q.S.).
[Begun 13th Nov. 1898, as an extension
charge, by Robert Buchanan, B.D., formerly
min. of Clydebank (q.v.), who served till
Oct. 1903. Disjoined from Liberton, Dud-
dingston, and Mayfield, and erected into a
parish quoad sacra, 30th Oct. 1908. A
church was built in 1902.]
DONALD MACMILLAN, born 7th Dec.
1866, eldest son of Duncan M.,
architect, Aberdeen ; MA. (Aber-
deen 1887) ; licen. by Presb. of Aberdeen 6th
May 1890; ord. to Careston Sept. 1892;
dem. 30th Sept. 1904, to undertake Preston-
field extension charge, and ind. first min. 8th
Dec. 1908. Marr. 12thJuly 1894,Edith Mar-
jorie Eveline,youngest daugh. ofJohnWatt,
advocate, Aberdeen, and has issue—Sybilla
Catherine, born 6th May 1895 ; Duncan
Stewart, born 8th Nov. 1907. Publications
—Contributor toAuroraBorealisAcademica
(Aberdeen, 1899) ; Farewell Sermon, Care-
ston Parish Church (Brechin, 1904).
RESTALRIG (Q.S.).
[Prior to the Preformation Restalrig was
a collegiate parish church, founded (in
connection with the tomb and well of St
Triduana) by King James II., with a dean
and nine prebendaries. It was a noted
place of pilgrimage. After the Reforma-
tion the church was allowed to fall into
decay, but in recent times it was partially
restored. The revived parish is taken
entirely out of South Leith, and was dis-
joined and erected into a parish quoad
sacra, 31st May 1912.]
GEORGE BOYD, born 9th May 1824,
at Landguard Fort, Suffolk, son of
Thomas B. (H.M. Coastguard Ser-
vice) and Elizabeth Haskell ; educated at
Grammar School, Cromarty, and Univ. of
Aberdeen; M.A. (1851); licen. by Presb.
of Lewis 1855 ; ord. to St Andrew's, Hali-
fax, Nova Scotia, 1856 ; res. 1865 ; assistant
at Tolbooth, Edinburgh ; app. to Restalrig
Mission 1870; res. May 1903; died 27th
Nov. 1905. He marr. 15th Aug. 1856,
Elizabeth (died 20th Feb. 1914), daugh.
of John MacKeddie, shipmaster, Cromarty,
1870
and had issue—Mary Matheson, born 1st
June 1857 (marr. 6th Sept. 1895, John
Deacon Murray, engineer, Egyptian Govern-
ment Service) ; Thomas John, born 4th
Sept. 1858; George Haskell, W.S., born
25th Dec. 1859; Elizabeth MacKeddie,
born 27th July 1861 (marr. 2nd July 1896,
William Auchie Alexander, CA.) ; Alex-
andra Keith, born 17th Oct. 1863 ; John
William Parker, born 11th June 1866, died
24th May 1912.
WILLIAM BURNETT, born Edinburgh
1912 19th June 1864, son of Peter S. B.
and Elizabeth Mitchell ; educated at
George Watson's College and Edinburgh
Univ. ; M.A. (1884), B.D. (1887) ; licen. by
the Presb. of Edinburgh, May 1887 ; assist-
ant at Hawick and Dundee ; ord. 4th Oct.
1891 to Woolloomooloo, Sydney, N.S.W.
;
inducted here Dec. 1904 ; adm. first min.
of the parish 31st May 1912. He marr.
13th April 1892, Lena, daugh. of David
Russell Dawson, Tayport, and has issue
—
Mary Johnston, born 16th May 1904.
ROBERTSON MEMORIAL, or
GRANGE PARISH (Q.S.).
[Erected into a parish quoad sacra 30th
Oct. 1871. The foundation stone of the
church was laid, 28th May 1870, by John,
Earl of Stair, Lord High Commissioner, and
the building was opened, 1st Oct. 1874, as a
memorial of James Robertson, D.D., Pro-
fessor of Ecclesiastical History in Edin-
burgh University, formerly minister of
Ellon, and founder of the Endowment
Scheme of the Church.]
WILLIAM LYON RIACH, born Aber-
deen, 28th March 1824, son of John
R. and Mary Dawson; educated at
Grammar School, Aberdeen, and Marischal
College and Univ.; M.A. (1846); licen.
by Presb. of Aberdeen 1851 ; assistant at
Broughton ; ord. to Balmaghie 23rd. Dec.
1852; trans, to Pencaitland 1st Feb. 1855;
trans, and adm. 14th March 1872 ; res.
11th Dec. 1895; died 13th June 1912. He
marr. 25th July 1861, Agnes Geraldine,
daughter of Edward Potter, Cramlington,
Northumberland, and had issue—Margaret
1872